“Why was this gorilla murdered? No trial — no reason. No excuse. Who will prosecute?” That’s what Brian May, the guitarist and singer for Queen and an animal rights activist, demanded to know after Cincinnati Zoo officials shot a gorilla after a boy fell into its enclosure over the Memorial Day weekend.
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The shooting of the 17-year-old, 400-pound Harambe drew the B-list crowd out of the woodwork. “It saddens me to no end that a gorilla had to be put down because of an irresponsible parent. However you look at it, that’s just sad,” said Katee Sackhoff, who played Lt. Kara “Starbuck” Thrace on the Sci Fi Channel’s “Battlestar Galactica.”
Kelly Osbourne, she of the ever-changing hair color, also emerged to lament: “Shame on those for the murdering of #Harambe.” And Holly Robinson Peete, who appeared on “21 Jump Street” decades ago, took time out of her busy day to write: “Last week a naked man in Chile jumped in a lion den on purpose now this boy with the gorilla … Beautiful innocent animals killed. Smh.”
The emotive tweets splashed across the Internet over the weekend after the Cincinnati Zoo’s decision to fatally shoot a gorilla when a 4-year-old boy fell into his moat. But while social media users and celebrities rushed to condemn the zoo — and the boy’s parents, who have received death threats — the murder of some 55 million babies aborted in the 43 years since Roe Vs. Wade was enacted has drawn nary a peep.
“Many of the same people who want to prosecute the mother for negligence in gorilla death are advocates of mothers killing unborn babies,” tweeted conservative columnist Ben Shapiro.
The zoo officials chose to protect — perhaps even save — the life of a 4-year-old boy over that of the lowland gorilla, and for that choice, the zoo received immediate and harsh backlash. Would these celebrities have exhibited the same response if it had been their own child stuck in the enclosure with a massive male gorilla?
Even when employees from Planned Parenthood were caught on camera last summer pricing out aborted babies’ organs, the “outraged” celebrities and social media users remained painfully silent. Why is it that celebrities turn out in droves to support animal shelters while so few work towards aiding in the adoption of children?
Why did so many people care so much about giving a “voice” to the snail darter fish during the controversial building of the Tellico Dam when the “voice” of the unborn child is neglected? Why does the Left so ardently support radical organizations like Greenpeace that fight “for a green and peaceful future for our oceans, forests, food, climate and democracy” when it will not support organizations that fight for the future of unborn children?
“We have about a million babies a year who are not born. We sell off their body parts like it’s nothing. And you hear nothing.”
“We have Hollywood celebrities who emit a collective yawn when we find out what really goes on in the abortuaries across this country, Planned Parenthood clinics, other abortion clinics, the way women are routinely lied to,” LifeZette Editor-in-Chief Laura Ingraham said during a Tuesday appearance on “Fox & Friends.” “We have about a million babies a year who are not born. We sell off their body parts like it’s nothing. And you hear nothing. I mean, in fact, they celebrate it. Not only we hear nothing, they celebrate that.”
And the incident also prompted Ingraham to make another comparison.
“When I first saw this story broke, I knew that this exact reaction is what we’d see,” she said. “I think it’s horrible and sad. I’m glad the child is OK. But really, we have veterans on the streets who are eating out of garbage cans, and yet Hollywood is like having a candlelight vigil over one gorilla tragically having to be shot in this situation.”
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